If you look at the heights of a classroom full of 6-year-olds, you will see that there are a few that are quite short, a few that are quite tall, but most of the kids are somewhere in the middle for height. If you were to graph the distribution with height increasing from left to right, which of the following best describes the distribution of heights in this group?

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The distribution of heights in a classroom full of 6-year-olds is likely to be normally distributed, meaning that most of the kids will have heights that are close to the average height for a 6-year-old, with fewer kids having heights that are either much taller or much shorter than average. This is because height is a normally distributed trait in the general population, meaning that most people will have heights that are close to the average height for adults, with fewer people being much taller or much shorter.

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